America’s (other) most powerful man

This is a look at my desk at 6:41 ET, today. After poring over all this material with Lawrence, both of us wielding our own all-important highlighter, I was putting the finishing touches on tonight’s Rewrite. It’s a Rewrite we’ve been discussing since last week, and one in which you will meet the most powerful man in America “who does not sleep in the White House,” to borrow a line from the script. He’s a man who controls our government’s most important domestic power. And he’s a man who’s getting some push back from a source he probably never expected.